Well…. We obviously spoke too soon last weekend gloating about how good the weather had been for training so far. Today saw a very wet training session but the good news is all the skiers left the hill with smiles on their faces despite being cold and wet.
Race Dev 1 & 2 were on timed runs first thing this morning and from what I could see there was a lot of energetic and enthusiastic runs being skied which was then reflected in the times- which can be found below. PS 1 and 2 were again put through their paces by Alex and myself working on outside ski pressurisation early in the turn, Alex followed up by doing some synchronised short swings with a seamless transition into tic-tacs whilst PS2 were working on posture and stamina. RD 3 & 4 continued the good work from last week with Stuart and Callum continuing to build the basic skills and the improvements from these groups from start of the autumn season is fantastic.
Once again the head to head races saw some great close racing between RD 3 & 4 and the Performance squads. 5 teams raced each other giving each team 4 races and a lot of the races were neck and neck to the final skiers with even one race being declared a dead heat draw. Modesty prevents me from saying which coach had the winning team this week!
Highlight of the day had to be Andrew Simpson (pictured above) who came up with a novel new wet race descent! The committee is now analysing his time with his mums brolly and determining if permitted to stand under FIS rulings! This could be the making of a new race series idea!
See you all next weekend (or Wednesday for the Autumn league)
James
Times for Race Dev groups and today's "slick mat" conditions
Jack Sleigh 8.71
Harvey Sleigh 8.68
Torin 8.47
Logan Duncan 8.32
Kieran 7.97
Kizzy 10.53
Ruaridh 9.62
Murdo 8.38
Dylan 9.47
Findlay 9.09
Jacob 9.68
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